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with five arrows through his body[.] From this incident it was infered that the number of the enemy did not exceed the number of arrows found in the horse[.] That these five were horse stealers and that finding only one horse they could not make a division and therefore settled the business as is customary on such occasions in this summary manner[.]

M^r Larocque having made the necessary preparations for our Journey we left the Mississouri on the 22^nd April and arrived at Asseneboine Fort on the 2^nd May – where M^r Chaboillez received us kindly, thanked us for our winter toil, and as a token of his approbation made each of us a present of a horse[.]

So Ended my first trip to the Mississourie my next task will be to relate the observations made in my second expedition[.]

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